Family of Ephraim * PAYSON and Judith * CLAPP

Husband:	Ephraim * PAYSON (1693-1761)
Wife:	Judith * CLAPP (1698-1769)
Children:	Susannah * PAYSON (1737-1778)
Marriage	1 Nov 1716	Boston, Middlesex, MA, US^1,2,3

Husband: Ephraim * PAYSON

Ephraim * PAYSON

Name:	Ephraim * PAYSON
Sex:	Male
Father:	Ephraim * PAYSON (1659-1732)
Mother:	Catherine * LEADBETTER (1661-1739)
Birth	26 Mar 1693	Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, US⁴
Occupation		Carpenter
Death	Sep 1761 (age 68)	Stoughton, Norfolk, MA, US

Wife: Judith * CLAPP

Name:	Judith * CLAPP
Sex:	Female
Father:	Desire * CLAPP (1652-1717)
Mother:	Sarah * POND (1652-1716)
Birth	15 Oct 1698	Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, US
Death	5 Jan 1769 (age 70)	Sharon, Norfolk, MA, US

Child 1: Susannah * PAYSON

Name:	Susannah * PAYSON
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Joshua * WHITTEMORE (1712-1791)
Birth	1737	Sharon, Norfolk, MA, US
Death	7 Sep 1778 (age 40-41)	Sharon, Norfolk, MA, US³

Note on Husband: Ephraim * PAYSON

Ephraim and Judith were married by the Honorable Samuel Sewall, now known as the "witch" judge, and moved to Stoughton, MA in 1726 or 1727. In 1765, part of Stoughton MA, was set aside and called Stoughtonham. It became a separate town in 1775 and was named Sharon in 1783.

Ephraim was a carpenter. In an article by John Phillips in The Sharon Advocate(1911) we find, "About 1725, Matthew Hobbs sold 50 acres to Benjamin Hewins, John Hixon (a mason) and Ephraim Payson (a carpenter) who formed a company and built a dam and furnace to make wroght iron."

Ephraim and his wife Judith (Clapp) Payson had ten children, order of birth uncertain of the last five children listed, information was taken from Hawes-Payson Genealogical Register found at New England Historic Genealogical Society Library in Boston, MA.

Sources

1	"MA Marriages 1633-1850" (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Film # 1761394 and 0859998).

2	"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).

3	"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".